Help! I can't use those skills because they're from the same category! (Turn On Elective Mode)

If you’re not allowed to put two skills on your bar because they’re from the same category – FEAR NOT! This isn’t a bug or a permanent in-game restriction. You simply have to CHECK ON ELECTIVE MODE, via Esc > Options > Gameplay > Elective Mode!

Binding Force Move to Mousewheel up & down is a value change that every player should make IMO. It prevents misclicks and skill misfires, and forces you to move to where otherwise an enemy might be.

Playing the Build & Adjustments

This Barbarian build is a pretty typical Rend/Whirlwind build which does tremendous AoE damage. This build is a little special with the addition of Frenzy.

Furious Charge-Merciless Assault, get used to it! It’s a huge part of the Barb playstyle in most builds, Fresh 70 included. DO NOT use it purely for traveling unless you’re pretty sure you’ll be walking for nearly 10s. It’s main purpose is DAMAGE, FURY and DODGING.

What’s the rotation look like? Charge in, hitting as many guys as you can, Rend, align yourself and charge as many guys again. Massive groups? Charge, Rend, repeat!Takes a little practice, but once you’re used to it, it’s downright OP.

Rend: don’t spam it too much (unless you’re trying to quickly heal with Life per Fury Spent!) as it doesn’t stack by default. Lure guys, Frenzy or Whirlwind during the “Rend downtime”.

Why Frenzy? A lot of FC/Rend/WW builds struggle with single target damage (champs, guardians). A lot of (impractical) purists say Frenzy is a crutch in these builds – and honestly they’re correct! But this is a Fresh 70 Barbarian build. We don’t have Wastes 2, we don’t have Lamentation, we don’t have Stricken for RG. We don’t have WotB or CotA in our bars taking up space for skills… you get it? Frenzy – Maniac is damn good at this point in the game, and buffs your ENTIRE KIT. Don’t listen to the naysayers.

As you get more items, your build may become unbalanced or you feel an aspect of your build is lacking to push the next difficulty level – here’s some adjustments:

Offense & ResourceDefense & HealingSpeed & Mobility

More Damage or Fury needed?

Rend-Bloodbath: is more brainless and better if you get Lamentation. Rend is really strong so you can use any rune and it won’t really matter. Just try to have elemental% bonus on gear.

Berserker Rage – Well, the more used to the build you’ll be, you’ll be able to trigger this more often than not. Replaces Brawler.

Animosity – brainless Fury generator. If you pick up a good non mighty weapon, replace Weapons Master with this. Unforgivingis not bad either. Try both and see which one is better for you. Of course, make sure you have something to use all that Fury on…

More defense needed?

Defense is usually categorized in either Toughness or Self-healing capability.

War Cry-Veteran’s Warning – the easiest toughness increase for simple change of rune. More advanced players would probably want to switch to this right away.

Setting up!

Use Level 70 yellow gear for Barb! Make sure they have Strength and Vitality on them! If not, re-roll them. You only need a few crystals and dusts! Stick in the highest Red (Ruby) gems you can on ALL slotted gear you have!

Lightning%: having this on your amulet and bracer will greatly increase your damage output! Of course, change this to whatever element your main damaging skill does.

Rend% Damage: since this build will be pretty much dependent on Rend, this is the best skill+ we can get.

Rend% comes from Chest/Shoulders

Whirlwind% comes from Head/Feet

Frenzy% comes from Belt/Legs.

Re-rolls: re-roll helm, gloves, rings and amulet and hopefully you get Crit Chance. Try to get sockets, too, in preparation for L.Gems. For now, put in the highest Red gem you have in all non-head sockets. Helm sockets, Purple for toughness, White for CDR.

Re-rolling yellows is a value move that most people don’t do. Cheap and fast for a huge boost!

Templar In! Use him! Abuse him! Luckily, you’d pick up Strength gear that would increase his power a bit. But mainly, he’s there to increase your life regen and Fury generation. Bul-Kathos guide both your ways!

Gaining Power!

Do Bounties, Nephalem and Greater Rifts!

Unlocking Kanai’s Cube

Unlock your Kanai’s Cube as soon as you hit level 70 so you can start Kanai-ing gear to get those 3 extra legendary powers! An integral part to any characters power level.

Getting your legendary gems

For now, the following gems are what you need to upgrade for the early game. Level them up and stick them in your rings and amulet!

Of course you might want to check the popular set builds and see what legendary gems they use, and upgrade those.

Items to look for

So now, you should be on the hunt for set items, or certain generically powerful legendaries to help give you some serious power ups.

Blood ShardsDeath's BreathClassics

Using Blood Shards:

The main use of blood shards is obtaining your set items. Any 2, 4 or 6 set is a noticeable spike in power. Along the way, you’ll be getting random legendaries… We suggest you start off the hunt with Shoulders.

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the season 13 barbarian build is overpowered.I suggest pairing MOTE with a good rolled Fury of the Vanquished Peak + seismic slam % on items you can get it.Fun times and makes Seismic slam fun to play with plus all the earthquakes.